Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I don't deny it," said Frodo, looking at Sam, who was now grinning. "I don't deny it, but I'll never believe you… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I should have said Welsh has always attracted me. By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!" said Aragorn sternly. "You know not what you say. There is in her and in… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
'Nonetheless day will bring hope to me,' said Aragorn. 'Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
